Alberta now has 778 people in hospital with COVID-19, 29 of whom are receiving care in ICUs.
That is a decrease of 78 hospitalizations. The number of ICU admissions has not changed since last week's update.
According to the province, 309 of the 896 people in hospital with COVID-19 last week were hospitalized for reasons directly related to the virus, while the other 587 people were admitted for other reasons, but incidentally tested positive. In the ICU, 31 per cent of patients were being treated because of COVID-19.This is because 18 deaths were added, while 23 deaths were retroactively removed from the provincial total, taking it from 5,470 last week, to 5,465 this week.
The number of new cases is likely higher because of testing limitations and because the province doesn't count positive results from rapid tests.On Jan. 23, 2021, 616 Albertans were hospitalized with COVID-19. In 2022, 1,404 patients were in hospital with the virus while there were 778 people this year.
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